In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertake...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to e...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trai...

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...